Just learned about HPE ALM Octane? Your deployment planning starts now

Today, HPE announced some pretty exciting news: the release of HPE Application Lifecycle Management Octane (HPE ALM Octane). This product is specifically designed for high-velocity, Lean and Agile teams and clearly represents HPE’s next generation of application lifecycle management products. Thanks to our relationship with HPE, we’ve been working with HPE ALM Octane since its...

Doing the Right Things, the Right Way – with Expert Colin Scott

Whether you welcome it or hate it, change typically comes with a unique set of challenges. In the most recent “Ask the Expert” webcast, Colin Scott introduced the idea of active inertia. He talked about how the apparent resistance to change is actually rooted in the fact that, over time, what were good principles can...

“What If” You Managed Your Resource Plan Better?

How are you getting the truth? I talk to people every day who struggle with resource capacity and demand planning. It’s a challenge to see what people are working on and if people are available to take on more projects. Often times they are focused on the day to day work, like an individual project...

From Divided to United — Aligning Technical and Business Teams

Are your technical and business teams at odds with each other? They don’t have to be. Alignment is defined as “a position of agreement or alliance”.  Aligning technical and business teams is a matter of gaining clarity and consensus around why teams are doing what they’re doing. Your teams may (and in fact, should) argue about the who, what, and when,...

6 Key Takeaways from the 2016 Chief Innovation Officer Summit

Last week was Innovation Enterprise’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit (CINO) held in San Francisco. Hundreds of innovation practitioners from different industries and with varied levels of experience came together for two-days of learning and sharing. The likes of Google, Qualcomm, Boeing, and Wells Fargo were among the diverse set of brands in attendance – and...

HPE Discover & Software Lifecycle Architecture Diagrams

June is right around the corner and for Tasktop that means HPE Discover! Over the past 5 years, the Pre-Sales Engineering team at Tasktop has created hundreds of Software Lifecycle Architecture Diagrams for our prospects and customers. Using a custom template, we’re able to facilitate collaborative conversations around the challenges our automotive, banking, insurance, retail, etc....

Continued Pursuit of PPM Excellence

One of the questions that often gets asked of “C level” executives is what keeps them up at night? What are the addressable critical components for the role that ostensibly determine success or failure? Careers are made or vaporized if these questions aren’t contemplated, answered, planned, and then executed. In our business here at Innotas,...

Five Critical Questions to Ask Your PPM Vendor

Sometimes, knowing the right questions to ask can make all the difference in evaluating new tools. For example, your IT Project Portfolio Management solution may be coming apart at the seams – whether it is cobbled together spreadsheets or maybe your current solution isn’t scaling with your current (and future) business needs. You’ve been tasked...

Look Around Corners When Planning Your Portfolio and Resources

We’re excited to release the latest updates to our resource management solution and predictive insight capabilities. These features ease the burden of resource planning, allow you to visualize impacts, and confidently drive your organization’s roadmap. We are shedding light on your portfolios with two powerful visualization capabilities. Impact Analysis Release With the Impact Analysis tool,...

EA Planning: Developing a Common Framework and Language

When three groups with diverging interests and vocabularies come together for enterprise architecture planning, it is easy to miscommunicate when trying to prioritize expectations, issues and objectives. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with IT expert Colin Scott on a monthly Ask the Expert webcast where attendees can submit their questions on a...